Good fellow polish boy a lot of man love between the two of us, let me tell you. [laughter] though,good thing because a lot of people have been coming up to me saying i love your perryville book and thanks so much for having me. Polish kris deserves another. At one time, he worked here at the Spotsylvania National Military Park but has since gone on to do amazing things. Some of his career highlights, he served as supervisor out of perryville battlefield, the state park in connecticut kentucky, excuse me. Currently he is now with the , General Macarthur memorial in norfolk. He spends most of his days thinking about the Pacific Theater of world war ii, but his heart will always remain back in 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864. So we are really pleased to have him come here, marrying his two loves, talking today about the Confederate Navy. Christopher kolakowski [applause] thank you very much. That is certainly one of the more entertaining and interesting introductions i have ever had. [laughter] i
Elderly dad from what happened there in the room. The most difficult part, my parents were in my mother turned 80 on the day of the vote to confirm Clarence Thomas, and i believed the difficult part was to watch my parents who were elderly people, who had lived good lives and raised their children and to be honest and truthful and hardworking and all of the things that we want parents to do for their child n children. To watch them go through it, the sense that they felt that they couldnt protect me from it, and i think it was really hard on them. It undermined their confidence in whether or not the government truly represented them. And for an African American family, those kinds of questions have existed. And to have it personalized i think was really difficult, but i have to say they were so strong and so wonderful and so supportive, and they never wavered. And so but it was still hard for me to watch them go through that and know that i couldnt protect from the feelings that they h